Queen Elizabeth

             Queen Elizabeth I of England knew the fear of her people and troops standing in utter silence as she expertly delivered her speech of hope and victory to the crowd. She inevitably knew of the meek situation- an unwanted but expected invasion by the troops of Spain. Yet the queen also knew the purpose she was there. She was there to boost the spirit's of her frightened troops, give them hope, and speak of a righteous victory. She did all of this no by talking about the battle she wished them to win but by emphasizing her devotion and love for her people. By this skillful technique Queen Elizabeth was able to craftily capture a victory over Spain and in the process succeed in capturing the hearts of her people.
             Throughout the following passage the queen places various images into the readers head. Her unusual style of writing is successful in achieving it's purpose to place various positive images in the minds of her people. She speaks in broken sentences, begins a sentence only to conclude it with a unparalleled one. Further in the passage her sentences become tied together like that of poetry, in efforts to combine all her statements into a universal picture. An example of this would be the statement she made in lines 5-6, "Let tyrants fear, I have always behaved myself that , under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects;" By using frequent breaks in her phrases and sentences the queen allows her troops to absorb her words and fully comprehend the importance of their meaning. She uses a abundance of effective imagery to create the mood of her troops going into battle, and giving them the impression they will be coming out of it victorious.
             Elizabeth talks not of fighting a hard and gruesome battle, not of the importance of England's victory, and not of how Spain was to be put to ruin. She concentrated her efforts however on enforcing how...

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